Almost eight years in the making!\u00a0 A little word of advice, don’t wait eight years to update your print portfolio.\u00a0 Seriously bad idea.\u00a0 My book hadn’t been updated pretty much since I graduated in Dec 2001.<\/p>\n
In Dec 2001, I started with an off the shelf faux leather Prat Classic Spiralbook from Meiningers<\/a> Art Supply.\u00a0 No Plastic Sleeves<\/a> would not have approved.\u00a0 At the time I was thinking, why spend all the money for a custom made portfolio when I knew it was only a matter of time before it was updated.\u00a0 Haha, guess I was a little off on that one.\u00a0 But hey, I still won Best Book (toot toot).\u00a0 Truth be told, post graduation I only showed that portfolio to three people.\u00a0 The first was a Don Jones who hired me as an assistant way back when.\u00a0 The second was John Yost at Marblestreet Studio who hired me as his studio manager and second shooter.\u00a0 The third was the Art Director at Weaver Multimedia Group<\/a> which is where I spent five years as their in house photographer..\u00a0 I walked away with about 25,000 images. Virtually unedited.<\/p>\n My process:\u00a0 First up I had to work my way through eight years of images.\u00a0 It took me quite a while to strip that mass down to about 1500.\u00a0 At that point, I was wasted.\u00a0 I literally did not want to look at my images anymore.\u00a0 Which is where the fabulous Amanda Sosa Stone<\/a> came into the picture.\u00a0 I passed the 1500 off to her and viola, four days later I had two draft portfolios, completely layed out as well as an edit for my website.\u00a0 I was super thrilled.\u00a0 After a few tweaks here and there, the inner pages were finalized and I started printing…Epson 3800 on double sided Moab Entrada.\u00a0 For the covers I went with Lost Luggage<\/a> Frosted Green Looking Glass..again nothing really fancy primarily because I’m on a very tight marketing budget!<\/p>\n So here we are with two portfolio, Travel and Lifestyle.<\/p>\n It feels good to have those done. Sooo…branding, check…portfolios, check…time to start making some phone calls. Since luck is where preparation meets opportunity, wish me opportunity!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Almost eight years in the making!\u00a0 A little word of advice, don’t wait eight years to update your print portfolio.\u00a0 Seriously bad idea.\u00a0 My book hadn’t been updated pretty much since I graduated in Dec 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[90,192,193,203,245,252,334,335],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marketing","tag-colorado-photographer","tag-lifestyle","tag-lifestyle-photographer","tag-marketing","tag-photographer-in-colorado","tag-portfolios","tag-travel","tag-travel-photographer"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489,"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/2489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}